Tottenham are struggling for options in attack, with Dele Alli and Harry Kane injured and Son Heung-min away on Asian Cup duty so Andy Carroll may be the answer, according to The Sun. The West Ham forward is a free agent in the summer and could be snapped up for £2million, the paper said.

A few miles east of Craven Cottage, in theatre land, understudies frequently get calls to stand in for the greats of the stage. Each lives in fear of turning in the kind of performance Fernando Llorente produced as Harry Kane's surrogate at Fulham.